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A Mother and a Father had a daughter who grew from a baby to a beautiful girl.
The Mother and father were proud of their daughter and one day the father said „It
is time you were married my beautiful daughter‟.

And so it was agreed that the mother and father would travel to the next village
to make arrangements with family of Boy whom she would marry when her parents
were away the honest girl began to day dream about what her life was going to be
like to have children and then she began to Day dream about what her children
would be called.

She decided that she would have four children three boy and one girl. She
would call them Mulak, Jahaan, Dhesh and Lutdi.
She imagined what it would be like to call out to her children when it was time for
them to come in for Dinner. The girl was so absorbed in her beautiful daydream
that she climbed up onto the roof of her parents house and called out Mulak,
Jahaan, Dhesh, Lutdi and as the honest girl called out these names the people of
the village stopped what they were doing and turned towards the houses where
the honest girl lived with her parents.
Then one by one they began to run towards the house because they thought
that the girl was in trouble.

You see in Punjabi the names Mulak and Jahaan also Mean „People‟ and the
name Dhesh means „Land‟. Although Lutdi is name one might give to a Daughter it
can also mean „I am being attacked‟ and so you might understand why all of the
villagers began to run towards the house where the honest girl was standing upon
the roof top calling out the names of her imagined childrens. The villagers were
afraid that the honest girl was being attacked.
But even stranger at that very moment there was indeed a group of thieves
intended to steal everything they could get their hands on because they had heard
that the mother and the father were away in the next village and the girl was all
alone in the house.
But when the thieves noticed that all people from the village were approaching the
house they got scared and ran away into surrounding woods never to seen again.
As the villagers arrived at the house, they called us to the honest girl what is
wrong my child who is attacking you?
And the honest girl replied. There is nobody attacking me I was just calling out
to my children. „But you are not yet married‟ said one village and you do not yet
have children protested another. The girl had great difficulty explaining to the
villagers that she was simply dreaming about what her life was going to be like
after she was married and had children. The villagers were not impressed at all.

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